Table 1.
Demographic and HIV-related risk behavioral characteristics of RCCS participants living with HIV, with and without HIV sequence data in 31 inland agrarian and semi-urban trading communities between 1994 and 2018.
| R1 (November 1994–August 1995) | R13 (June 2008–December 2009) | R18 (October 2016–May 2018) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inland communities | PLHIV | PLHIV with sequence | PLHIV without sequence | PLHIV | PLHIV with sequence | PLHIV without sequence | PLHIV | PLHIV with sequence | PLHIV without sequence |
| N | 1162 | 604 | 558 | 1218 | 703 | 515 | 1648 | 269 | 1379 |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| Median age (IQR) | 29 (24, 35) | 30 (24, 35) | 28 (24, 35) | 33 (28, 39) | 31 (26, 37) | 35 (31, 41) | 36 (30, 42) | 30 (25, 35) | 37 (31, 42) |
| 15–24 | 315 (27.1%) | 154 (25.5%) | 161 (28.9%) | 170 (14%) | 130 (18.5%) | 40 (7.8%) | 173 (10.5%) | 66 (24.5%) | 107 (7.8%) |
| 25–34 | 531 (45.7%) | 279 (46.2%) | 252 (45.2%) | 542 (44.5%) | 346 (49.2%) | 196 (38.1%) | 559 (33.9%) | 130 (48.3%) | 429 (31.1%) |
| 35+ | 316 (27.2%) | 171 (28.3%) | 145 (26%) | 506 (41.5%) | 227 (32.3%) | 279 (54.2%) | 916 (55.6%) | 73 (27.1%) | 843 (61.1%) |
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 440 (37.9%) | 251 (41.6%) | 189 (33.9%) | 425 (34.9%) | 263 (37.4%) | 162 (31.5%) | 507 (30.8%) | 116 (43.1%) | 391 (28.4%) |
| Female | 722 (62.1%) | 353 (58.4%) | 369 (66.1%) | 793 (65.1%) | 440 (62.6%) | 353 (68.5%) | 1141 (69.2%) | 153 (56.9%) | 988 (71.6%) |
| Occupation | |||||||||
| Agriculture | 654 (56.3%) | 331 (54.8%) | 323 (57.9%) | 637 (52.3%) | 359 (51.1%) | 278 (54%) | 870 (52.8%) | 115 (42.8%) | 755 (54.7%) |
| Trade/truck | 150 (12.9%) | 90 (14.9%) | 60 (10.8%) | 168 (13.8%) | 94 (13.4%) | 74 (14.4%) | 216 (13.1%) | 52 (19.3%) | 164 (11.9%) |
| Restaurant/bar | 32 (2.8%) | 18 (3%) | 14 (2.5%) | 58 (4.8%) | 32 (4.6%) | 26 (5%) | 103 (6.2%) | 10 (3.7%) | 93 (6.7%) |
| Other | 326 (28.1%) | 165 (27.3%) | 161 (28.9%) | 355 (29.1%) | 218 (31%) | 137 (26.6%) | 459 (27.9%) | 92 (34.2%) | 367 (26.6%) |
| Number of sexual partners in the past year | |||||||||
| 0–1 | 959 (82.5%) | 488 (80.8%) | 471 (84.4%) | 794 (65.2%) | 478 (68%) | 316 (61.4%) | 1020 (61.9%) | 149 (55.4%) | 871 (63.2%) |
| 2+ | 197 (17%) | 114 (18.9%) | 83 (14.9%) | 239 (19.6%) | 149 (21.2%) | 90 (17.5%) | 346 (21%) | 82 (30.5%) | 264 (19.1%) |
| No response | 6 (0.5%) | 2 (0.3%) | 4 (0.7%) | 185 (15.2%) | 76 (10.8%) | 109 (21.2%) | 282 (17.1%) | 38 (14.1%) | 244 (17.7%) |
| Any sexual partner outside the community in the past year | |||||||||
| Yes | 193 (16.6%) | 101 (16.7%) | 92 (16.5%) | 333 (27.3%) | 202 (28.7%) | 131 (25.4%) | 482 (29.2%) | 101 (37.5%) | 381 (27.6%) |
| No | 968 (83.3%) | 502 (83.1%) | 466 (83.5%) | 700 (57.5%) | 425 (60.5%) | 275 (53.4%) | 884 (53.6%) | 130 (48.3%) | 754 (54.7%) |
| No response | 1 (0.1%) | 1 (0.2%) | 0 (0%) | 185 (15.2%) | 76 (10.8%) | 109 (21.2%) | 282 (17.1%) | 38 (14.1%) | 244 (17.7%) |
| Recent history of migration | |||||||||
| Yes | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 171 (14%) | 113 (16.1%) | 58 (11.3%) | 405 (24.6%) | 124 (46.1%) | 281 (20.4%) |
| No | 1115 (96%) | 578 (95.7%) | 537 (96.2%) | 1045 (85.8%) | 588 (83.6%) | 457 (88.7%) | 1243 (75.4%) | 145 (53.9%) | 1098 (79.6%) |
| Nonresident | 47 (4%) | 26 (4.3%) | 21 (3.8%) | 2 (0.2%) | 2 (0.3%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Self-reported ART use | |||||||||
| Yes | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 268 (22%) | 9 (1.3%) | 259 (50.3%) | 1277 (77.5%) | 64 (23.8%) | 1213 (88%) |
| No | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 731 (60%) | 524 (74.5%) | 207 (40.2%) | 332 (20.1%) | 186 (69.1%) | 146 (10.6%) |
| No response | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 219 (18%) | 170 (24.2%) | 49 (9.5%) | 39 (2.4%) | 19 (7.1%) | 20 (1.5%) |
| Not available | 1162 (100%) | 604 (100%) | 558 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Viral load | |||||||||
| ≥1000 | 462 (39.8%) | 277 (45.9%) | 185 (33.2%) | 690 (56.7%) | 573 (81.5%) | 117 (22.7%) | 312 (18.9%) | 269 (100%) | 43 (3.1%) |
| 50 ≤ VL <1000 | 24 (2.1%) | 11 (1.8%) | 13 (2.3%) | 117 (9.6%) | 71 (10.1%) | 46 (8.9%) | 56 (3.4%) | 0 (0%) | 56 (4.1%) |
| BD | 21 (1.8%) | 2 (0.3%) | 19 (3.4%) | 355 (29.1%) | 29 (4.1%) | 326 (63.3%) | 1264 (76.7%) | 0 (0%) | 1264 (91.7%) |
| No data | 655 (56.4%) | 314 (52%) | 341 (61.1%) | 56 (4.6%) | 30 (4.3%) | 26 (5%) | 16 (1%) | 0 (0%) | 16 (1.2%) |